{"id":257,"date":"2009-04-15T17:00:23","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T21:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/?p=257"},"modified":"2009-04-15T17:00:23","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T21:00:23","slug":"desert-providers-begins-medicare-accreditation-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/desert-providers-begins-medicare-accreditation-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Desert Providers Begins Medicare Accreditation Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coolidge AZ &#8211; Desert Providers, a home medical equipment (HME) provider in Arizona, has contracted with Oxebridge Quality Resources for CMS Accreditaton Preparation services. This program readies HME companies for audit under Medicare regulations; such accreditation is mandatory for companies billing for reimbursement under Medicare.<\/p>\n<p>Desert Providers sells ostomy products, wound care supplies and nebulizers for patients in Arizona and elsewhere in the country. The company has operated since 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Compliance to Medicare guidelines was not the only driver for Desert Providers; the company aims to prove its dedication to treating each patient as a family member by utilizing the requirements of CMS and third-party verification by the Accreditation Council of Healthcare (ACHC) of\u00a0 to prove its commitment to quality care.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Desert Providers, call 1-800-723-5144.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Oxebridge&#8217;s CMS Accreditation Preparation program, visit <a href=\"www.cmsaccreditation.com\">www.cmsaccreditation.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For informaton on ACHC&#8217;s CMS assessment programs, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.achc.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.achc.org<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coolidge AZ &#8211; Desert Providers, a home medical equipment (HME) provider in Arizona, has contracted with Oxebridge Quality Resources for CMS Accreditaton Preparation services. This program readies HME companies for audit under Medicare regulations; such accreditation is mandatory for companies billing for reimbursement under Medicare. Desert Providers sells ostomy products, wound care supplies and nebulizers [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,8],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-cms","tag-hme-dme","tag-medicare","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}